Smart Homes for a Smarter Season

The days are getting darker and our lights are staying on longer. So if you have been considering making the move to energy saving LED Smart lights, now is the season to start saving electricity and saving money. This post is sponsored by Best Buy.

Are you getting smarter? We are. Well, okay our IQ’s haven’t been rising. But we have been making our houses smarter.

For the past year, one of the ways we have been trying to become more energy efficient is to change out all of our lightbulbs in our homes for more energy efficient LED lights.

So when Best Buy asked us to write a post about Smart Homes and choose a couple items from their variety of Smart Home Products, we jumped at the chance.

It was hard to narrow down our wish list. But in the end, we chose to review some LED lights that aren’t just smart, they are super fun too! Because really, why not have FUN while making a more energy efficient home?!?

Philips Hue A19 Smart LED Light Bulb Starter Kit

There are light bulbs — and then there are smart light bulbs!

Yes, these Philips Hue smart light bulbs are seriously exciting. Not only do you get the cost savings of an LED lightbulb, but you can control and program your lights from your smart phone.

Through the Hue app, you can change the color of the lights to encourage specific moods, such as energize, concentrate, or relax.

You can also program your Hue lights to works as alarms and timers, set up times when you are home and away, and even set up your own personalized routines.

Nanoleaf Aurora Smart LED Light Panel – 9 Pack

The Nanoleaf Aurora smart LED light panels are incredible. With these innovative triangular light panels, you can design a wall that is truly your own.

With the Nanoleaf app, you can literally choose from millions of colours to create custom colour patterns and scenes. You can choose how to animate the lights, change the speed of the transitions, and adjust the brightness.

Nanoleaf Aurora takes lighting to a completely new place. It is interactive wall art that is as fun as it is functional.

We are so excited about the Nanoleaf Aurora Smart LED Light Panels that we decided to make a video review to show you more about it…

As the weather gets colder and your heating and electricity bills get higher, head over to Best Buy to check out their huge variety of Smart Home products. You will be thrilled to discover how even small changes in your house can make big differences in your bills.

Giveaway

Best Buy is providing a $100 gift card for one of our Canadian readers. If you live in Canada and you’d like to win, please leave us a comment letting us know if you’ve ever tried any type of smart LED lights and/or which type you’d like to try. Then complete your entry using the form below.

We have not yet tried smart LED lights but something definitely worth considering as we renovate our new to us home. I love the Nanoleaf Aurora Smart LED Light Panel – 9 Pack it looks like a neat way to customize the lighting in your home.

I have never tried or seen any smart lighting systems, but I really like the flat panel Nanoleaf Aurora Smart LED Light Panel set. They remind me of the lighting panels the I used to see in sci-fi shows and movies when I was a kid in the 60’s and 70’s. They would be really cool to have, especially to setup around my computer or anywhere in the house actually.

I’ve gotten the ones at Ikea that are better than regular bulbs – but nothing as amazing as these. The Phillips kit looks *amazing* would be great for parties, an movie nights. Turn the lights up slooowly instead of a jarring light flip. So cool!

We have the hue lights in our home and I really love how you can control the colours. I my cark family room, we can put the hue light to look like daylight. I’d love to try the Aurora lights. Great for a teenagers room or bar area.

We changed over most of our bulbs to LED lights last year and have noticed a savings on our electricity bill! We’ve never tried any Smart LED lights though – would love to though, especially to set lights to be on when it gets dark before we get home in the short winter days! The Philips Hue smart light bulbs would be a great fit for our family!

I have heard so much about the Philips Hue A19 Smart LED Light Bulb Starter Kit, and I’m very excited for it! How cool it would be to have the option to change the bulb to any color depending on the mood you’re in! This would also be perfect for those with autism/sensory issues.